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Behavioral Ecology Vol. 12 No. 3: 261-264
© 2001 International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Hamilton Symposium |
W. D. Hamilton and the evolution of sociality
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA
Address correspondence to D.C. Queller. E-mail: queller@rice.edu .
Bill Hamilton was always at his best in small groups, and I would like to
open and close my reflections with some thoughts generated by two small
scientific meetings that Bill Hamilton attended. I was not present at the
first meeting, in Tvarminne, Finland, but a photograph from the meeting made
an impression on me. In the foreground stood Pekka Pamilo, the organizer of
the meeting, with a rather worried expression on his face. In the background
was Bill Hamilton, skating across the ice. Bill had brought his ice skates,
intent on taking every advantage of this visit to the north. It turned out,
however, that the ice was quite thin, so the organizers attempted to dissuade
Bill. They made a general request that speakers at the meeting should please
not attempt any ice skating, at least until after they had delivered their
talks. Bill followed the letter of this
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